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, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on Tuesday, with more rain forecast following days of devastating floods in the north.
Videos posted on social media on Monday showed people and cars being swept away by raging waters in the city of Shiraz in Fars province.Iranian President Hassan Rouhani called for the army and the elite Revolutionary Guards to help in flood-stricken areas, the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting news agency reported.
“When a city goes underwater because of a flood and neighbourhoods face this problem, removing the water is a difficult, heavy task,” Rouhani was quoted as saying on Tuesday at a government crisis group discussing the flood response.The hardline judiciary said on Sunday that the government’s handling of the disaster was being investigated, the judiciary’s Mizan news agency reported.
Some 26 provinces out of 31 now have flood warnings due to torrential rain in a country more accustomed to drought. State television said villages near rivers and dams in several provinces had been evacuated for fear of the rising water. Authorities have warned about the possibility of floods in the capital, Tehran, as well as in the oil-rich southern province of Khuzestan in the next 24 hours.
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